"I still remember that the original location for the Iberostar was right on top of the nesting beach. Fortunately TAMAR and environmental campaigners managed to persuade them to move far enough away. In the end a win-win situation.
Praia do Forte is…"
"Any group members interested in learning and networking about global ecotourism in Monterrey at TIES yearly Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference ? http://www.ecotourismconference.org/
As a new member of the TIES advisory board, I went to…"
"I´ve bookmarked it, as it has interesting examples.
However I am not a fan of titles that claim to identify the TOP XX of something.
1) What are the objective criteria used that determine "greenness"
2) Did they really verify ALL the hotels in…"
"Sam, Jackie,
I´m going to order the book. I know Hitesh (he´s a fellow board member at TIES) and I am sure he has done a great job. One of the 36 lodges included in the book is the Cristalino Jungle Lodge, one of the tow best lodges in the Brazilian…"
I have been following Brazil's tourism industry for a long time (and collect a lot of statistics going back to the 80s) and while still critical of how things are run in tourism in Brazil, one thing is very clear: tourism has certainly become…"
"Sam,
How can you be precise to the second decimal, when the estimate for the total number of fauna species ranges between 2 and 30 million. Nobody even agrees on the number of described species (which is lower).
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